PONKE DANKER

Ponke Danker is Coordinator of the Irish Network for Education Worldwide (INEW), a voluntary network of civil society actors and education stakeholders in Ireland committed to promoting knowledge and effective responses to global education issues. She is a qualified human rights lawyer (German qualification) with over 8 years' experience in advocacy, policy, and non-profit management with a passion for social justice, diversity, equality, and inclusion, and promoting education as a human right. Ponke has previously worked with Irish Traveller organisations, as a refugee lawyer in Germany, and interned with the International Criminal Tribunals.